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G. LAUBE.

I STRAW BURNING GOOK STOVE. No. 409,209. Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GDDFRIED LAUBE, OF HURON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

STRAW-BURNING COOK-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,209, dated August 20, 1889.

Application filed May 13, 1889. Serial No. 310,595- (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GODERIED LAUBE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Huron, Beadle county, Territory of Dakota, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Straw-Burning Cook-Stoves, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to theaooompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a cooking-stove of simple construction which will permit the use of straw or hay as fuel, or burn wood or coal in the customary way. Such stoves are especially designed to meet the demands and necessities of a prairie coun try, where wood and coal are scarce and hay and straw are usually abundant.

In carrying out my invention I employ a shallow elevated stove-body having a horizontal fire-pot in its front for the use of wood or coal and an opening in its bottom plate back of the fire-pot for the application of a removable straw-burnin g magazine. The stove-body is supported, by suitable legs or otherwise, at a considerable distance from the floor, so as to give the necessary clear space back of the fire-pot for the straw-burning magazine. The magazine rests on a suitable support a short distance from the floor, and has an opening in its top adapted to register with the opening in the bottom plate of the stovebody. At its rear end the stove-body is provided with an enlarged opening in its top plate for the application of an elevated or exit-flue oven. Provision is made for a direct and indirect'draft, and the partitions are so arranged that when the damper is set for the indirect draft the flames from the magazine will be forced to pass in succession under all the griddle-holes in their course to the oven and exit-flue.

I11 the drawings I have shown my preferred construction, therein like letters referring to like parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stove embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, some of the parts being removed.

A is the elevated stove-body, having in its front the ordinary wood and coal fire-pot A and the hearth A".

B and B are sets of front and rear supporting-legs.

C is the elevated or exit-flue oven, resting on the rear end of the stove-body and in communication therewith.

a is avertical partition extending from the rear of the stove in front of the oven to the firepot, and provided at its front end with lateral wings a. This partition divides the body. of the stove into two compartments longitudinally. Transverse openings and sliding damper Z) serve to connect the two at will. One of th ese compartments is provided with a central opening a in its under plate for the application of the straw-bu rnin g magazine, and with a damper D at its rear end in front of the oven for controlling a direct and indirect draft. The end plate of the stove-body is provided with a segmental flange E around the opening a".

F is the straw-burning magazine, having a segmental opening in its top adapted to register with the opening a in the under side of the stovebody, and with a draft-tube f in its bottom for the admission of air.

G is a platform-or base-board adapted to rest on the floor and support the magazine F in its working position.

The operation is evident from the description already given.

This particular form of fuel-magazine is adapted to turn the straw or hay downward against the draft. If the damper D be turned down and the fire lighted, the products of combustion will be forced forward by the partition a and outward by the lateral wings a and then backward on the other side to the oven of the exit-flue, passing in succession under all the griddle-holes. If it is not desired to use straw or hay, the opening a" may be closed by a suitable lid and wood or coal burned in the fire-pot A in the customary way.

The top of the straw-burning magazine makes a close joint with the under side of the stove-body. Its side adjacent to its opening when in position rests against the segmental flange E. In order to afford a continuous fire, a relay of these magazines is employed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows: 1. A cooking-stove adapted to the use of straw, hay, wood, and coal as fuel, compris- IOO ing an elevated shallow stove-body having a Wood and coal fire-pot in its front and an opening in its under plate in the rear of the fire-pot, and a removable straw-burning magazine having an opening in its top adapted to register with said openingin the under plate of the stove-body, substantially as described.

2. A cooking-stove comprising a shallow stove-body having a Wood and coal fire-pot in its front and an opening in its under plate in the rear of the firepot, suitable supports therefor so applied as to leave a clear space under the body of the stove in the rear of the fire-pot, and a removable straw-burning magazine having an opening in its top adapted to register with said opening in the under plat-e of the stove-body, substantially as described.

3. A cooking-stove comprising the stovebody A, With fire-pot A and hearth A", the supporting-legs B B, the partition a, the opening a", the damper D, the oven 0, and the removable fuel-magazine F, having an open ing in its top adapted to register with the opening a, substantially as described.

GODFRIED LAUBE. In presence of- FRED FORCHT, FRED H. PARKS. 

